Physician - Pathology jobs in Chesapeake, VA

Overview

This position is located within the Directorate for Clinical Support Services (DCSS) at Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia and specifically resides in the Anatomical Pathology Division of the Laboratory/Clinical Pathology Department.

Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, is the oldest continuously running hospital in the Navy. Our new facility is constantly evolving to reflect our growing population with new technology and training opportunities. Over 4,300 Sailors and civilians work in locations from Yorktown to Chesapeake to deliver health care to the 420,000 Active-Duty members, family members and retirees living in Hampton Roads. These men and women carry on a tradition of caring and service that dates back to Revolutionary times.

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions. For more information, please visit the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/benefits/

Who May Apply: US Citizens

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation

Responsibilities

As a Physician (Pathology) you will:

• * Provides consultation to other Pathologist on the most difficult and challenging pathology cases.
• * Recognize and diagnose rare and difficult to diagnose entities involving knowledge if new and advanced diagnostic techniques.
• * Extract and work work with patients' body fluids or tissues and prepare specimens for examination.
• * Performs specialized test on body fluids or tissue samples and confirms patients' test results.
• * Provide expert lectures to medical students, residents, fellows and practitioners about pathology and speak at scientific meetings on a national and international level.
• * Prepare scientific papers and reports for publication of research findings.
• * Take periodic home call to cover the operating room for consultations and other after hours laboratory request
• * Be a section leader of at least one clinical pathology or anatomic pathology section in the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Laboratory Department.
• * Provide accurate information about pathogenesis, histogenesis, biology and differential diagnosis

   

Qualifications

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.